Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, The

Use the following trick to store items that you do not want to carry in your inventory. Enter the Inn in Skellige and go to a corner in the room. Drop all your items at once and will appear as a bag on the floor. You can return to retrieve them whenever desired. To add something else to the pile, pick up the bag, and then drop it again after it has the additional item.

• Find a group of underwater Nekkers, then use your crossbow to kill them with one hit.
• After leveling high enough to get decent crossbow damage, go to the Devils Pit at Velen. Run around and kite at least five bandits from the camp, then return to the entrance. The enemies will not be able to get past the gate, and line up at that boundary. Take out a crossbow and auto attack them until all the bandits are killed. If something went wrong, fast travel to another location and return to respawn the bandits before trying again.

The environment can be used in several ways to kill enemies.

• Swamp Gas: Ignite using the Igni sign.
• Explosive Barrels: Ignite using the Igni sign or by attacking it. It will explode after a few seconds for a large amount of area of effect damage.
• Stack of Barrels: Topple over onto enemies using the Aard sign.
• Insects (Hornet Nest): Can be destroyed to unleash hornets on nearby enemies.

The first contract available is "The Devil by the Well" in White Orchard, but may be difficult to complete without using oils and signs. Instead, consider doing this on the griffin in White Orchard. It is an easier fight, and will count as a contract even though it is required by the main questline. Another option is the werewolf at Velen during the "Wild At Heart" secondary quest. Although the quest does not appear as a contract in the journal, it also counts.

When you complete the "Ugly Baby" main quest, the side quest "Brothers in Arms" will start. The required people can be found as follows. Note: Letho is optional, because he may have already been killed due to events from The Witcher 2.

Velen

• Letho: Reardon Manor (near Lindenvale). Complete "The Fall of House Reardon" side quest.
• Keira Metz: Complete "For the Advancement of Learning" side quest by telling her to go to Kaer Morhen.

Novigrad

• Vernan Roche and Ves: Temeria Partisan Hideout. Complete the "An Eye for an Eye" side quest.
• Zolton Chivay: Rosemary and Thyme.
• Triss Merigold: Complete the "Now or Never" main quest.

Skellige

• Hjalmar an Craite: Kaer Trolde. Ask the person who is ruler.
• Ermion: Gedyneith.

A kill may not always count as a head shot, even if you fire at the enemy point blank in the face. Humans, dwarfs and elves will count as valid targets. Killing drowners will not count. You can damage your target with other weapons, but the killing blow must be a headshot with a crossbow bolt. A successful headshot is indicated by the screen shaking at the moment of death, with yellow text on the left side confirming a critical hit was made. Consider farming kills at the Devil's Pit in Velen. Lure enemies to the gate. They will not move past the gate if you do not get too close. Then, begin shooting them. To stop the enemy from moving around use the Axii sign then fire a free aim kill shot. After killing all the enemies, fast travel to another location, then return to respawn more targets.

During the end of Chapter 2 on Roche's path, Dethmold will send you into a kingslayer's mind. You must act out some of his memories. Save the game before starting the process. There are six segments that must be completed. Because you must be successful on your first attempt, reload the saved game if you fail and get kicked out of the memory.

• Kill harpies without dying.
• For the traps on the ground, follow Serrit's footsteps and path precisely. Walk, and do not run.
• When sneaking through the camp, you cannot be seen. Follow the person on the left and remain out of sight until you can move past him and the tents.
• When walking ahead, nothing special needs to be done.
• Kill the soldiers without dying to earn "Necromancer". There will be another fight that follows.

Drink a mongoose potion before you enter the arena, just after splitting from Sile. Also have the Kayran trap, which is crafted in town with a component from Loredo's compound. Also have extra vigor (points, recharge bonus). The giant Kayran has six tentacles. Because the center two cannot be attacked, stay away from the middle of the area. The Kayran also has a poison attack, which is mitigated by the mongoose potion. The poison is also concentrated in the center of the area. The other four tentacles can be attacked after they become temporarily pinned to the ground. Use the Kayran trap to pin one of them. The remaining two can be done with the Yrden sign. If you could not craft the Kayran trap, use the sign to pin all three tentacles. Use the sign, get the tentacle to hit it, and a pulsating spot of color will appear on the tentacle. Attack it until the tentacle is severed. After those three three tentacles are severed, the Kayran will sweep one of the remaining tentacles across the battlefield and start a Quick Time Event. You must jump on and hold to the tentacle. After you are brought across the Kayran's body, another Quick Time Event will start that you must be completed sucessfully before you hit the column. Then run to run to the left and on the ramp formed by the collapsed bridge up to the Kayran's head, and you will kill it. Note: There are two body part collection points that can be found for loot.

Places of Power are the static glowing stones found in various location. Each place of power corresponds to one of your signs (Axii, Yrden, Quen, Igni and Aard). Once you have activated the stone, you will recieve bonuses for the corresponding sign. After activating the stone, an icon appears at the top of the screen indicating the remaining time for that particular bonus effect. You must have five places of power activated simultaneously. The starting area in "White Orchard" has six of the stones. Search the area to find five different stones, then use your horse or fast travel to activate all of them before the previous ones expire. Note: There are two "Quen" places of power at this location; make sure you do not use the "Quen" stone twice.

For the Axii Sign to turn an opponent against another, the Tier 2 Axii Skill "Puppet" is required. The first level will temporarily turn a target into an ally and give them a 60% damage boost, which can be upgraded two more times to 60%. Find a group of enemies and weaken all but the strongest one. Then, use Axii on that strong enemy.